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Happy Hour Reading: Spalding’s School of Creative and Professional Writing

Widmer Brothers Brewing 929 N Russell St, Portland, OR, United States

Doors at 6:30 p.m, reading at 7:00 p.m. by award-winning writers and Spalding faculty and alumni Lynnell Edwards, Douglas Manuel, John Pipkin, Katy Yocom, Peter Field, and Catherine Rush. Widmer Brothers Brewing is on the MAX Yellow Line, an easy trip from the Convention Center. Join us for a bite, a beverage, and literary doings to relax after a long day of conferencing! The event is free, ticketless, open to all, and is sponsored by the generosity of Kurt and Ann Widmer. Contact: Katy Yocom

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Three Ways to Disappear – Katy Yocom

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a reading of Three Ways to Disappear, a debut novel by Katy Yocom. Leaving behind a nomadic career as a journalist, Sarah DeVaughan returns to India, country of her childhood and of unspeakable family tragedy, to help preserve the endangered Bengal tigers. Meanwhile, at home in Kentucky, her sister, Quinn, fears that India will be Sarah’s undoing. As Sarah’s new job is made complicated by complex local politics and a forbidden love, Quinn copes with their mother’s refusal to discuss the past, her son’s life-threatening illness, and her own increasingly troubled marriage. When Sarah asks Quinn to join her in India, Quinn realizes that the only way to overcome the past is to return to it, and it is in this place of…

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